which hard drives actually work with this
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GoFlex portable drives work with this. This product is old and out of date, and having used it for several years, I don't recommend it anyway. It ate my drives. It literally ate my drives. Constant churning wore out two of the three drives I purchaed. one was covered under warranty, one was not. In my opinion, this product is not worth any price.
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It should work perfectly, though I haven't tested it with this specific drive
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Definitely with hard drives that is the main reason I got it. I have 2 ex drives and a wireless mouse plugged into it. I would imagine it works with any other USB device. So far works fine no problems.
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The manufacturer claims 2TB drives work. Unofficial reports claim 3TB drives work if they don't draw too much power. The other thing is that some of the 6TB drives have unusual screw hole placements. You can make that work with a little DIY, but for the average computer user, power tools and computers do not go together well. I'd look for a more modern enclosure, personally. This one's a little long in the tooth and I did go through two of them in about four years.
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For hard drives, mine arrived with Toshiba DT drives at 7200rpm. They work exceptionally well and are slightly faster in my tests than other drives at the same rating.
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It appears that the other hard drive has comparable specs. However it comes with a different firmware. Otherwise I think it is likely a matter of packaging and marketing.
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The one I received didn't work at all. I returned it for a Drobo. I use 2TB drives in the Drobo so I don't know about 4 in that.
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This drive will only work if you purchase a USB "Y" cable. These are the most inexpensive SATA drives on the market, I have MANY of them working with my PowerBook and MacBook. Mission critical stuff I keep on the more versatile and durable ("Drop Shock" protected) portable Iomega FireWire/ USB drives which luckily for me came with USB "Y" cables. The Iomega dual interface portables are much more expensive though (but well worth it for me, my data is important).
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Yes. It works with both drive types. I have about 25 left over 2.5" drives and have used them many times.This Plugable device is really just a hub for connecting SATA hard drives. Plugable is a great company too. Since I first ordered from them about 6 months ago, they are where I get all my 'generic' device needs. Always better than 'Made in China' type quality that we're used to.
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I have Seagate 3TB external HD USB 3 and it works with this ok it just takes awhile on reboot or start up for Windows 7 to pick it up.
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Yes it does. I'm using WD Black 4TB drives in mine, and it has worked flawlessly since I set it up three months ago.
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I have used this device with any type of hard drives, master or slave. It makes no difference, this device is just a way for you to read and write into the hard drive that you connect to.
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I really am not sure. I have a Dell and I did install it as second hard drive and it works. I am not sure of model.
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As far as encased hard drives, it only works with the Seagate Backup Plus series. BUT, it also works great with bare internal SATA drives, both 2.5" and 3.5". Bare drives have a tendency to lean a little bit when plugged onto the base, but that's easily corrected by any non-conductive material used as a spacer.
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Any 2.5" hard drive, regardless of manufacturer, should work as long as it is SATA. Your SATA drive should be no exception and should work perfectly.
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You can use any Sata drive. They must be the same size. If they're dissimilar sizes it will only be as large as the smallest drive. So far it's worked flawlessly
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if you pull the external hard drive from its case it will work unless the internal hard drive uses an older PATA (EIDE) connector instead of SATA, anything from 2006 and above should have an SATA connector generally speaking.